He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the French Journal of Ophthalmology, Honorary director of the Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology (Beijing, China), past General Secretary of the French Society of Ophthalmology, vice-president of the French Glaucoma Society, and active member of several international societies, including the prestigious American Ophthalmological Society and Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, member of the board of the International Council of Ophthalmology.

He was awarded silver fellow of ARVO in 2011 and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2015. He has published more than 400 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has developed extensive research in new surgical techniques, ocular surface inflammation, biomarkers, imaging technologies or side effects of anti-glaucoma medications and preservatives.